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The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home

After losing her Florida home to foreclosure in 2009, Sheila Ramos has made a home for her family on a patch of rural land on Hawaii's Big Island. (Paul Kiel/ProPublica) Note: This story is not…
AUTHOR:Paul Kiel
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1018 words)

We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran

March/April 2012 We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran Fears of a bomb in Tehran’s hands are overhyped, and a war to prevent it would be a disaster. By Paul Pillar At around 8:30 in the morning on…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5114 words)

The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush

It’s a few hours before dawn in the Peruvian rainforest, and five bare light bulbs hang from a wire above a 40-foot-deep pit. Gold miners, operating illegally, have worked in this chasm since…
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8347 words)
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My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

Writer Steve Silberman: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Steve Silberman is a contributing editor for Wired magazine, one of Time’s selected science tweeters, and the author of the NeuroTribes…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (264 words)

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6227 words)
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